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post Jan 20, 2009 - 12:19 AM
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boost my 5s-fe or swap 3s-gte. there both ganna cost around the same.i need some help, what do you guys think?


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post Jan 20, 2009 - 7:34 AM
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found the 3s for 1450 ****in preety awsome


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post Jan 20, 2009 - 7:55 AM
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QUOTE (relyks95gt @ Jan 20, 2009 - 7:34 AM) *
found the 3s for 1450 ****in preety awsome

and what does that get you exactly?

i would doubt you will get EVERYTHING you need for 1450.

and if you did, i wouldnt expect it to be in "drop in" condition.

if you think your doing a swap for 1500$, your sadly mistaken.


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post Jan 20, 2009 - 8:11 AM
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Do you want to tune the car and squeeze every bit out of it? Or do you want something to run like factory and go fairly fast? If you want to first then do the 5s turbo. If you want factory and fast do the 3sgte. Advantage of the 3sgte no need to tune. Advantage of the 5s turbo very torquey bottom end power.

I have had both and if I were to do it all over again I would have done the 5s turbo right with a some what built 5s. I was sick of tuning and figured the 3s swap would be easier, later on finding out you are soo limited with the factory computer. If you like tinkering around with your car do the 5s turbo. besides with the 5s turbo you don't have to yank your motor out, unless you plan on doing maintenance.


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post Jan 20, 2009 - 9:16 AM
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5SFTE FTW below 300WHP

GEN3 3SGTE FTW above 300whp


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post Jan 20, 2009 - 11:28 AM
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if you have a good 3k saved up...do the 3s swap...so much more potential and more power...plus you have a gt already which makes the swap that much easier...your gonna be doing an equal amount of work turboing that 5s then you would droping in a new motor.


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post Jan 20, 2009 - 11:54 AM
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thats exactly what i was thinking cuz i already got 170,000 miles on it


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post Jan 20, 2009 - 1:16 PM
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Trying to boost a motor with 170,000 miles is a bad idea.
Trying to do a swap on a $1,500 budget is also a bad idea.


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post Jan 22, 2009 - 12:06 PM
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you want alot of power for cheap

sell your car and buy a modded car that already has a 3sgte

or you can buy my car with a 7agte built motor over 382 WHP

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=51291

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yea your 3sgte is cool but ill stick to my 7agte
post Jan 23, 2009 - 12:25 PM
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If you car was here, I would buy it from you RIGHT NOW. It's not fair that all the good deals are far away from me, LOL.


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QUOTE (SinisterSinner @ Dec 19, 2009 - 10:52 AM) *
I dont want to even think of turbos, they blow up way too often...

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